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Puyi in 1908. Puyi was born on 7 February 1906 in Beijing, then called Beiping.His father was Zaifeng, the Prince Chun. [1] Zaifeng was a Manchu prince [2] His great-grandfather was the Daoguang Emperor, his great-uncle was the Xianfeng Emperor, and his grandfather was Yixuan, the first person to hold the title of Prince Chun.
Wang Lianshou was born in 1887 in Renqiu county (now Jiaoyuanzhuang, Dacheng County, Hebei Province).At the age of 13, she fled to Beijing due to floods in her hometown. . Born with the surname Jiao (焦), she married a servant surnamed Wang (王), who died of illness after she gave birth to a daug
Li's memoirs were published posthumously under the title Modai Huangdi Puyi yu wo (末代皇帝溥仪与我; 'Last Emperor Puyi and I'). The author, Wang Qingxiang (王慶祥), compiled oral interviews with Li Shuxian, along with those of others close to Puyi in his later years, to retell their marriage and family life. Li is sometimes credited ...
The book narrates Puyi's life from his entry into the Forbidden City at the age of three in 1908 to his death in 1967. It tries to avoid repeating the stories already mentioned in Puyi's autobiography From Emperor to Citizen, and instead focuses on disclosing untold stories of Puyi in a multi-layered fashion.
At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, Soviet forces invaded and occupied northeastern China. [1] Yunying and her family were evacuated by train from Xinjing to Dalizigou (in present-day Linjiang, Jilin); there, Puyi left his wife, his concubine, his sister-in-law and his nieces, and selected his three full siblings (his brother Pujie and his sisters Yunhe and Yunying), his ...
Puyi, 16 years old at the time, was shown a selection of photographs of young females for him to choose his spouse from. [19] Puyi later claimed the faces were too small to distinguish between. [20] He selected Wenxiu, a 12-year-old girl, but the decision was opposed by the former concubine dowager Consort Jin based on her status and appearance ...
Wenxiu (20 December 1909 – 17 September 1953), also known as Consort Shu (淑妃) and Ailian (愛蓮), was a consort of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Qing dynasty. She was from the Mongol Erdet (額爾德特) clan and her family was under the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners .
Puyi had a younger full brother, Pujie (1907–1994), who married a cousin of Emperor Hirohito, Lady Hiro Saga. The rules of succession were changed to allow Pujie to succeed Puyi, who had no children. [9] [10] Puyi's last surviving younger half-brother Puren (b. 1918) adopted the Chinese name Jin Youzhi and lived in China until his death in ...